Mary Brian
Actor
Born February 17, 1906 in Corsicana, Texas, USA
Mary Brian (born Louise Byrdie Dantzler, February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002), was an American actress, who made the transition from silent films to sound films. Brian was dubbed "The Sweetest Girl in Pictures." After her showing in a beauty contest, she was given an audition by Paramount Pictures and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. There she starred with Betty Bronson and Esther Ralston, and the three of them stayed close for the rest of their lives. Ralston described both Bronson and Brian as 'very charming people'. The studio, who created her stage name for the movie and said she was age 16 instead of 18, because the latter sounded too old for the role, then signed her to a long-term motion picture contract. Brian played Fancy Vanhern, daughter of Percy Marmont, in Brenon's The Street of Forgotten Men, which had newcomer Louise Brooks in an uncredited debut role as a moll.
Filmography
Noisy Silencers
(archive footage)
Meet Corliss Archer
Dragnet
Anne Hogan
Danger! Women at Work
Pert
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Helen
Calaboose
Doris Lane
I Was a Criminal
Frau Obermueller, the Mayor's Wife
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
Frances 'Frankie' Ricks
Navy Blues
Doris Kimbell
Two's Company
Julia Madison
Killer at Large
Linda Allen
Three Married Men
Jennie Mullins
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Frances Clayton
Spendthrift
Sally Barnaby
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Hope Wolfinger
Charlie Chan in Paris
Yvette Lamartine
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Self
College Rhythm
Gloria Van Dayham
Monte Carlo Nights
Mary Vernon
Ever Since Eve
Elizabeth Vandergrift
Shadows of Sing Sing
Muriel Ross aka Muriel Rossi
Fog
Mary Fulton
One Year Later
Molly Collins
Moonlight and Pretzels
Sally Upton
Song of the Eagle
Elsa Kranzmeyer
The World Gone Mad
Diane Cromwell
Girl Missing
June Dale
Hard to Handle
Ruth Waters
Manhattan Tower
Mary Harper
The Unwritten Law
Ruth Evans
Blessed Event
Gladys Price
It's Tough to Be Famous
Janet Porter McClenahan
The Runaround
Evelyn
Homicide Squad
Millie
Gun Smoke
Sue Vancey
The Front Page
Peggy Grant
Captain Applejack
Poppy Faire
The Royal Family of Broadway
Gwen Cavendish
Only Saps Work
Barbara Tanner
The Social Lion
Cynthia Brown
Paramount on Parade
Sweetheart (Dream Girl)
The Light of Western Stars
Ruth Hammond
Only the Brave
Barbara Calhoun
Burning Up
Ruth Morgan
The Kibitzer
Josie Lazarus
The Marriage Playground
Judith Wheater
The Virginian
Molly Stark Wood
The River of Romance
Lucy Jeffers
The Man I Love
Celia Fields
Black Waters
Eunice
Someone to Love
Joan Kendricks
Varsity
Fay
Forgotten Faces
Alice Deane
The Big Killing
Mary Beagle - Old Man Beagle's Daughter
Harold Teen
Lillums Lovewell
Partners in Crime
Marie Burke, The Cigarette Girl
Under the Tonto Rim
Lucy Watson
Two Flaming Youths
Mary Gilfoil
Shanghai Bound
Sheila
Man Power
Alice Stoddard
Running Wild
Elizabeth Finch
Knockout Reilly
Mary Malone
Her Father Said No
Charlotte Hamilton
Stepping Along
Molly Taylor
The Prince of Tempters
Mary
Beau Geste
Isabel Rivers
More Pay - Less Work
Betty Ricks
Brown of Harvard
Mary Abbot
Paris at Midnight
Victorine Tallefer
Behind the Front
Betty Bartlett-Cooper
The Enchanted Hill
Hallie Purdy
He's a Prince!
Girl
The Street of Forgotten Men
Mary Vanhern
The Air Mail
Minnie Wade
The Little French Girl
Alix Vervier
Peter Pan
Wendy Darling